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Limits RegistryNASA's Parker Solar Probe reached approximately 690,000 km/h (192 km/s) relative to the Sun during a close perihelion pass on December 24, 2024 — the fastest speed any human-made object has ever achieved, driven by the Sun's gravity as the probe dives to within 6.1 million km of the solar surface.
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe reached approximately 690,000 km/h (192 km/s) relative to the Sun during a close perihelion pass on December 24, 2024 — the fastest speed any human-made object has ever achieved, driven by the Sun's gravity as the probe dives to within 6.1 million km of the solar surface.
The greatest speed relative to the Sun ever reached by a human-made object — a different metric from Apollo 10's speed record relative to Earth, since Parker Solar Probe's speed comes from its close solar orbit rather than an Earth-return trajectory.
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Limits Registry. LR-FASTEST-SPACECRAFT-PARKER. Fastest human-made object (speed relative to the Sun). 2026.